Ray Grainger
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ray Grainger
| birth_name = Raymond Grainger
| birth_date = 1961/62
| nationality = American
| occupation = Businessman
| known_for = co-founder and CEO of Mavenlink
| children = 2
}}
Raymond "Ray" Grainger is the co-founder and CEO of the tech startup Mavenlink.{{Cite web|url=https://pulse2.com/mavenlink-powering-new-services-economy/|title=How Mavenlink Is Powering The New Services Economy And Facilitating Business Lifecycles|date=2019-04-21|website=Pulse 2.0|language=en|access-date=2019-09-18}}
Early life and education
Grainger was born and raised in California. After graduating high school he worked as a field assistant for the National Science Foundation, and took part in two expeditions to the South Pole in 1979.{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/business-lessons-from-antarctica-2016-8|title=What it's like to work in Antarctica, according to a CEO who brought home 2 lessons that served his entire career|last=Kane|first=Libby|date=2016-08-11|website=Business Insider|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-18}} He received an engineering degree from Harvey Mudd College in 1988.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/college-governance/members-of-the-board/|title=2019–2020 Members of the Board|website=Harvey Mudd College|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-18}} During college he worked for a health care company.{{Cite web|last=Alejandro Cremades|date=2019-07-23|title=Ray Grainger On Raising $100M To Disrupt The $3 Trillion Services Economy|url=https://alejandrocremades.com/ray-grainger/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Alejandro Cremades|language=en-US}} After graduating college he worked as an information technology consultant at Accenture, where he remained for 17 years, eventually becoming Global Managing Partner. During these years he invested in several companies, among others in InQuira, which was acquired by Oracle in 2012.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Ray Grainger |url=https://www.cio.com/author/Ray-Grainger/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209015454/https://www.cio.com/author/Ray-Grainger/ |archive-date=2021-12-09 |access-date=2019-09-18 |website=CIO}} In 2005 Grainger left Accenture and became an executive at InQuira, a startup that develops call-center management software.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2014/09/29/midlife-crisis-not-for-these-entrepreneurs-starting-again/|title=Midlife crisis? Not for these entrepreneurs starting again|date=2014-09-29|website=Orange County Register|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-18}} He was an Executive Vice President of the company. After three years he left InQuira to start Mavenlink.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrocremades/2019/07/23/this-former-global-managing-partner-at-accenture-raised-100-million-to-disrupt-the-3-trillion-services-economy/#e3ff82d1f10d|title=This Former Global Managing Partner At Accenture Raised $100 Million To Disrupt The $3 Trillion Services Economy|last=Cremades|first=Alejandro|date=2019-07-23|website=Forbes|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-18}}
In 2008 Grainger founded Mavenlink together with Roger Neel as CTO and Sean Crafts as CGO.
Personal life
Grainger was a 2017 finalist for Orange County's Entrepreneur of the Year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2017/05/19/orange-countys-ey-entrepreneur-of-the-year-finalists-announced/|title=Orange County's EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalists announced|date=2017-05-19|website=Orange County Register|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-18}} He is an emeritus member of the Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees.
Grainger was married for 34 years. He has two grown children, a son and daughter.
References
External links
- [https://www.mavenlink.com/ Mavenlink]
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